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Surely you've caught a better than usual glimpse of local newscast this past week!

So, who's your favorites and least favorites?

Having worked in central Phx in the past I couldn't help but come to know the personality of many of the old timers.

I'm fairly even across the board, I flip between all the channels. However, I gotta say I rarely watch ABC on 15. Just seems like a dull group other than Cameron.

Guess Kelly ain't gonna send me all her money.

They all have there moments of insanity with asking questions about like the fire, like; "whatcha got on under those heavy pants, or is is hot fighting forest fires?

My pet peeve; why must they dress as if they just got back from L&L Bean or Eddie Bauer? Those jaunty little caps and the baggy jungle pants. I think Jim Paxton is a snappy dresser, very neutral plus he never takes crap from the media. Of course consider the source on the dressing part, I was asked to leave a pre construction meeting last month at Macy's because I had shorts on . . . . .

Azscrapper wrote: Liz Habib (what was the bar story on her?)

She got trashed at a bar in Scottsdale and when asked to leave responded with "do you know who I am" ...it escillated, and the police were called...she appologized on the air later...she's taken more a backseat since then

Azscrapper wrote:When they quite saying the Pledge in school - thats when I get hostile.

In the 5+ years I've been teaching, we haven't said the pledge at the high school level. I attribute it to two reasons...parents complaining about the "under god" part, and time. Since 9/11, we've been saying it each Monday, and I've had kids refuse to stand and say it because of the "under God"...I tell them to stand, say it, but to leave out the "under god"...usually this satisfies all involved.

I don’t remember being swayed one way or another because of the pledge in school. My parents were extremely ambiguous when it came to the “God” thing. Dad never told me he had any great beliefs but on the other hand he never told me not to believe.

On would think that if one had the fortitude to face life without a supreme being that one would not be swayed or offended by the mere mention of a higher power. My personal beliefs are that I know someone is driving sometimes, and it not me.

kurthzone wrote:Note on a Chanel 3 news anchor person:

I have a hard time listening to Liz (DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!) Habib after her news making bar incident.

Don't get me wrong on the Liz Habib thing. We all make mistakes. Wasn't it Jesus who said to the crowd ready to stone the adulteress, " if any is without sin, let him cast the first stone..." and they dispersed? I can remember some very idiotic things that I did and said at certain times in my life when I was intoxicated. It's just that now Liz is different in my perception. Although she looks and sounds the same now as she did before the incident, now I’m looking for something more; maybe something different or a sign that she is sincere. So it makes it harder to listen to her. Simple!

Azscrapper wrote: .....I want this country to continue to make positive changes i.e. setting blacks free; give women/blacks right to vote and own property

AZscrapper, please tell us that you posted the above as a flame! Tell us it ain't so, and that you don't really believe your own rhetoric. Please?

If not, it is the most outrageous statement I have read in a long time.

AZ

Fox 10. They are the least liberal.

Happend upon this mornings sickening news of the arson suspect (a BIA firefighter) who started the Rodeo fire while flicking past CNN. So quickly flick to local stations and nada. Their running yesterdays news. I think this story couldn't be hotter. I hop on-line once again; nada on azfamily.com; phoenix360.com but link to http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/fire/swainfo/swainfo.htm and once again nada. Go to cnn.com ~ ITS THE TOP STORY, duh!

I find most of the news to be slanted and the reporters to be just a face with nothing behind it. I have a back ground in forestery and nuclear power (I know, how did these two end up together) and when they talk about either they sound so misinformed that it makes me sick. With this in mind I think that the rest of their reports are just as bad. But I watch and read to find as many ideas as possible, this is the only way to stay informed and not be a sheep.

Maybe Colin can straighten me out on this. I haven't been in a history class for a couple of decades or so. I always thought the constitutional call for a separation of church and state was to prevent a State sponsored religion. That was due to the Church of England and the way it crammed itself down everyone's throut at the time. I don't think it was intended that the government should not mention any religion or (heaven forbid) support any religion by allowing them to include in a government sponsored program such as school vouchers or helping the homeless. If the founders of this nation truly intended a total break from anything religious; why'd they put acknowledgements on our currency, in the Declaration of Independance, and in various oaths of office? I think the founders would view this lawsuit as tyranny as evil as that they sought to escape by sailing across the Atlantic.
I saw an email about a website to support a constitutional amendment in favor of the pledge of allegiance. What a waste of time and money. What we need, if anything, is an amendment which will allow us to remove irresponsible judges from office!

Actually in Arizona, you can recall judges, but not federal judges.

I realize why it was setup that way for federal judges. They didn't want them to be subject to the whims of politics. I've heard the only way to remove them is for "high crimes and misdemeanors". What do you do when you get a fruitloop in? Some of these guys are in their 80's. My dad is in his late 70's and I love him but I wouldn't want to have to depend on him for a ruling! At some point the mind starts to wander. I don't know what the guidelines should be but I do think it should be discussed and decided by the voters.